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Idaho Law Foundation Year in Review
By Fonda L. Jovick Dear Law Foundation Members and Friends, Thank you for being part of our important work. We appreciate your ongoing commitment to the work of the Idaho Law Foundation. As you read through the information in this…
Read Full ArticlePreserving Independence, Impartiality, and Excellence in Idaho’s Court System: A Remarkable Judiciary, If You Can Keep It
By Mary V. York In my last Commissioner’s Column,[i] I wrote of the 2022 legislation that sought to change the process for filling judicial vacancies and selecting members of the Idaho Judicial Council – the body statutorily charged with evaluating…
Read Full ArticleRedacted Idaho Supreme Court Order adopting the majority “entire file” rule
The Idaho Supreme Court has issued an Order regarding the scope of documents a lawyer is ethically required to surrender to a former client under Idaho Rule of Professional Conduct 1.16(d). Please click the link below to review a redacted…
Read Full ArticleComments Sought on Various Idaho Rules – Deadline 10/5
Comments Sought on Idaho Rules of Family Law Procedure The Idaho Supreme Court’s Children and Families in the Courts Committee is seeking input on proposed revisions to the Idaho Rules of Family Law Procedure. A copy of the revisions can…
Read Full ArticleRecap of 2023 Idaho State Bar Annual Meeting
By Teresa A. Baker The 2023 Idaho State Bar Annual Meeting was held in Boise at Jack’s Urban Meeting Place (“JUMP”) from July 19th through the 21st. The meeting kicked off with the Distinguished Lawyer, Distinguished Jurist, and Outstanding Young…
Read Full ArticleThe Great Salt Lake and Idaho
By James R. Cefalo In recent years, there have been numerous news articles about the causes and impacts of declining water levels in the Great Salt Lake. Idahoans may feel that Great Salt Lake water levels are Utah’s problem. Idaho…
Read Full ArticleSackett v. EPA: North Idaho’s Clean Water Act Wild Card[i]
By Norman M. Semanko The Clean Water Act ("the Act") has become fertile ground for extensive litigation in the federal courts. And no issue has been more prominent than the Act’s jurisdictional trigger term, "navigable waters," defined in the Act…
Read Full ArticleCurtailing Water Use in a Good Water Year?
By Meghan M. Carter No doubt many of you have seen these or similar headlines this spring: “Possible Water Curtailments Even in a Good Year”[i] and “New Idaho Department of Water Resources Order Would Force 900 Groundwater Users to Curtail…
Read Full ArticleKeeping “Current” with the Idaho Water Adjudications
By Lacy Rammell-O'Brien Greek philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus is attributed with the expression, “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”[i] The Idaho Water Adjudications are much…
Read Full ArticleIdaho Volunteer Lawyers Program Report
By Jennifer M. Schindele The Idaho Volunteer Lawyers Program (“IVLP”) is a program of the Idaho Law Foundation, a nonprofit organization with a mission to increase access to legal services and enhance public understanding of the law. IVLP provides a…
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